Connecticut western news., 1887-12-07
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Already 10000 lives have been sacri- feed in the attempt to build the Pana- ma canal.
 The East Hartford Gazette has been enlarged by the addition of one column to each page.
 David Dudley Field, at the age of S2. keeps healthy by walking eight miles day and riding horseback an hour.
 Thou shoulds't not rap at the door of printing office, for he that answereth the rap sweareth in his sleeves and looseth time.
 George Francis Train says that Herr Most is game. He is not the kind of game, however, which receives protect ion under the game laws.
 Major General W. E. Emory, United States Army, died at his home in Wash ington D. c. last Thursday night, aged 76 years.
 Arthur Mann, aged IT, broke through the ice on Hooper's pond at Montville, Friday evning, while skating and was boy with him, was rescued.
 sWhere was Moses when the light went out?"One who pretends to know says that Moses best girl blew out the light and that Moses was holding down the sofa.
 The Prohibitionists of Connecticut will hold their State Convention in New Haven Dec 7 and 8. Delegates to the national convention will be appointed.
 An exchange throws new light on the question of dancing by saying ''Stop the fiddle and the dancing stops This shows how little sense there is in the dancing and how much there is ill the fiddle"
 The creamery that leads it's make of genuine cream butter, with ten to fifteen per cent, of water, or lot of surplus salt, has little reason to complain of the competition of lard or tallow.
 Doctor W. G. Wright, formerly of Salisbury, was pronounced insane by experts before Recorder Smith, New York city, on Tuesday last and ordered sent to the Po'keepsie asylum for treat ment.
 The Winsted Poultry and Dog show will open December 13 and continue four days. Entries of dogs closed last Saturday. The entires of poultry close to morrow, Thursday. There will be a fine display in the ornamental and pet stock division. -.. The trustees of Mt Holyoke seminary met at Springfield last Wednesday and voted to take measures to have the course of study enlarged, and to apply to the legislature for authority to grant degrees and to take the name of "Mt Holyoke Seminary and College"
 The people of the United States pour down their throats annually $7OO, 900, 900 worth of whiskey, beer and wine. No wonder labor and capital ''are at logger heads" and times are hard with so many families. Whiskey, beer and wine are the most dangerous anarchists in this or any other country.
 Among the bills presented against the County of Columbia is one from a city | physician for tapping Beckwlth," the Austerlitz murder. It has been placed l alongside of bill for 'killing skunks'' which Dr Barnes says comes down from Austerlitz and Canaan into Ghent an- nually.-[ Hudson Register.
 The Millerton Telegram says: A party of surveyors are at work in this vicinity locating route for new railroad, ex- pected to run from New Haven to Al. bany. We hope they will find it feasible to run the line through this village. The surveyors will make their headquarters in this village for about two weeks. Young man, when you jeer at lady passing along the street does 1t ever oc- cur to you that some other scoundrel might insult your sister, your wife, o1 in coming years your daughter, in the same infamous manner? How would you like that? If so, you are utterly contemptible, and ought to be kicked from one end of the continent to the other and horsewhipped back again.
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